Decreasing Inappropriate Behaviors

Vicarious reinforcement refers to a process where the student who is engaging in inappropriate classroom behaviors is ignored while other students in close proximity who are engaging in desirable classroom behaviors are reinforced, thereby providing a vicarious prompt of the desirable conduct for the misbehaving student.

Extinction refers to a process where reinforcement (e.g. teacher or peer attention) that previously maintained a specific inappropriate behavior is withheld to encourage the student to behave appropriately.

Punishment refers to a process where an aversive consequence (e.g. reprimand) or a valued commodity is withheld to discourage students from engaging in inappropriate classroom behaviors. Examples of strategies that may be considered punishing include:

In implementing a response cost procedure, special and general educators should:

Examples of Levels of time-out you can use include:

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